Internet Games no longer work

[xpandvistafan]

Well now, 2 years after the shutdown, https://mpgame5.games.msn.com no longer exists, and now https://freegames.zone.com has been repurposed for other games. I still wonder if it is possible for someone to make a custom server for this.

[DrunkenTanker]

On 4/26/2019 at 12:02 AM, UCyborg said:

reverse engineer their communication protocol

It's hard way. Create same games is easier.

IPs: 52.176.2.105

 

Edited June 22, 2022 by DrunkenTanker

[xpandvistafan]

On 4/25/2019 at 9:37 PM, i430VX said:

Well, I tried taking a poke with wireshark... all I really can tell you is that XP checkers tries to connect to freegames.zone.com which no longer exists.
on windoze 7 it connects to mpgame5.games.msn.com, which still indeed exists.
I suppose one could redirect the old checkers to the new server, maybe.
I have no clue how to do that though.

Sorry to reply to such an old post, but did you ever get a chance to intercept the requests to the server during gameplay when it was working? It would help with reverse engineering the game. Also, do you remember if it connected to the server via https? If it did, that is probably a reason it was shutdown, because for Windows ME to connect using https, it would need to use really old outdated cipher suites and a SHA-1 certificate.

[i430VX]

No.

And, it was not https.

[owlla2]

Can someone explain the solution and give the game exe files whose server is running?